Continuing with the opening questions for the McHenry County (Illinois) Civil War Round Table discussion group's October meeting.
Answer the question and tell what technology it refers to.
6. Who was the Union Secretary of the Treasury? What did he do in regards to raising money for the war effort?
7. Who was the Union man responsible for bringing observation to new heights? And what did he push?
8. Who's system was used by the pass messages on the battlefield other than the telegraph??
9. What were limelights?
10. What were they also known as?
Answers below.
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6. Salmon P. Chase. Instituted the Federal Income Tax. This continued until 1872, when it was rules unconstitutional.
7. Professor ThaddeusS.C. Lowe. Balloons.
8. Albert James Myer. These messages were passed by flags during the day and by turpentine torches at night.
9. Bright incandescent lights which had been used in theaters before the war.
10. Calcium or drummond lights.
--Old Secesh
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